Brainstorm - Issues in American Education

Red items have already been researched and presented.
  • Alternate class schedules
  • AP Classes
  • Arts in elementary school
  • Assembly programs
  • Benefit of music/art programs
  • Certain rules of punishment
  • Challenges in Urban, Suburban, and Rural schools
  • Class size
  • Communication between faculty/staff
  • Communication between students and teachers
  • Computer education/literacy
  • Creationism and intellectual design
  • Diversity
  • Dress code/ uniform
  • Dress codes
  • Electives
  • ESL/ELL
  • Extracurricular activities
  • Field trips
  • Foreign language education
  • Funding - Resources
  • Funding for school maintenance
  • Funding for schools
  • Funding for urban schools
  • Future of school
  • Gifted/talented education
  • Good curriculum
  • Health Standards
  • Immigration education
  • Internet safety/cyber bullying
  • Lack of extracurricular activities
  • Lack of parental involvement -require sessions?
  • Learning environments
  • Length of school day
  • Making schools ecofriendly
  • Mental health counseling
  • Multiculturalism
  • NCLB/Adequate yearly progress
  • Nutrition in schools
  • Performing arts funding
  • Plagiarism
  • Private vs Public schools
  • Public funding for private schools
  • Rhode Island's Proficiency-Based Graduation Requirements (PBGRs)
  • Salary for staff
  • School design
  • School Safety
  • Sex education
  • Special education programs
  • Sports funding
  • Standardized grading
  • Standardized testing
  • Standards Based Teaching
  • Student:Teacher ratio
  • Teacher evaluation
  • Teacher pay
  • Teacher qualifications
  • Teaching styles
  • Transportation
  • Validity of online courses
  • Vocational classes